My girls,20, 21 both are tatted, Yeah, I wish they hadnt, but truly, it is far more normal than not these days.... some of the work they have it very well done.... some it not so much....

If someone turned up wanting me to employ them, they wouldn't be considered if they had visible tattoos or any facial piercings whatsoever outside of ear lobes.
They make a judgement that such things are OK & I make a judgement that they aren't.
Their loss, not mine.

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Originally posted by Oddbod:
If someone turned up wanting me to employ them, they wouldn't be considered if they had visible tattoos or any facial piercings whatsoever outside of ear lobes.
They make a judgement that such things are OK & I make a judgement that they aren't.
Their loss, not mine.

+1 And the pierced ears need to be on a female. I don't care if you get them, but you won't work for me if you have them.

I would hire them all if I could!!!!!!

http://youtu.be/KnSJYXII-1Y

It's a shame how people on this site can applaud a frivolous and very expensive rifle, yet can't accept that others would like to spend their money and express themselves in different ways.

Do I have any tattoos?

No.

Do I care if others have them?

Not in the least.

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Originally posted by Oddbod:
If someone turned up wanting me to employ them, they wouldn't be considered if they had visible tattoos or any facial piercings whatsoever outside of ear lobes.
They make a judgement that such things are OK & I make a judgement that they aren't.
Their loss, not mine.

maybe just a stigma but i'd rather not have my food brought to my table by tattooed hands..........

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Originally posted by tasco 74:
maybe just a stigma but i'd rather not have my food brought to my table by tattooed hands..........

Wow!!!! I have heard it all now.

I suppose the next step would be to round up people with a tattoo and ship them off to a leper colony.....if they will have us/me there.

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Originally posted by tasco 74:

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Originally posted by Oddbod:
If someone turned up wanting me to employ them, they wouldn't be considered if they had visible tattoos or any facial piercings whatsoever outside of ear lobes.
They make a judgement that such things are OK & I make a judgement that they aren't.
Their loss, not mine.

maybe just a stigma but i'd rather not have my food brought to my table by tattooed hands..........

That would bother me too.Unless they are attached to a body!!!!

Tyler,

did I just read that you used "frivolous" and rifle in the same post?

If you don't like the rifle, you can sell it.

1. The used tattoo market is very small, resale value being nonexistent.
2. The odds of removing a tattoo without any signs of scarring are just slightly better than winning the Lottery. Especially these nice ones you see that cover a significant portion of the human body.
3. Wait until these courageous folks turn forty. Ever seen a once-attractive woman who lived in the sun/tanning booth from 15 to 35?
There's enough extra skin to make a medicine ball. Try to get a visual on one with 20-30 square inches of tattoos...

PM me your home phone number, I need to speak with your parents.

Rich

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
Tyler,

did I just read that you used "frivolous" and rifle in the same post?

If you don't like the rifle, you can sell it.

1. The used tattoo market is very small, resale value being nonexistent.
2. The odds of removing a tattoo without any signs of scarring are just slightly better than winning the Lottery. Especially these nice ones you see that cover a significant portion of the human body.
3. Wait until these courageous folks turn forty. Ever seen a once-attractive woman who lived in the sun/tanning booth from 15 to 35?
There's enough extra skin to make a medicine ball. Try to get a visual on one with 20-30 square inches of tattoos...

PM me your home phone number, I need to speak with your parents.

Rich

Rich you and I have had our differences but darn that was just funny!

Tyler, I think this is an important point and one I made in a previous post. Employers, (like me,) aren't interested in employee individuality, creativity, or whatever. An airline pilot doesn't need to be noticed for their body art, they should be noticed for their flying competency. Making it to a travelers destination is whats important. "Mom" on the bicep of the pilot is not. If the tatoo of "Mom" is a distraction for the pilot or passengers,.......................In my case, I don't want employees that attract attention because of the big tits on the woman they had inked on their forearm, I don't want employees that make conversation with the big holes they had carved in their ears, I want employees that draw praise for their carpentry skill. I want employees that assemble a truely beautiful kitchen/ window/ door/ roof. I hope you understand thats what uniforms are about. Solidarity, conformity. During work hours, you are supervised, maybe compartmentalized. During non work hours, do what you want, assert yourself as you see fit.

Why is this pertinent? I'm writing the paychecks, I have the money, I make the rules. Sure you don't have to work for me, until you do, meaning that someday, eventuality on eventuality, you ask some guy like me for a job just because you gotta have it. Why handicap yourself? If you want to express your individuality write a book/ poem/ screenplay/, carve a sculpture, paint a masterpiece. Just not on yourself.

I cut my hair short, I keep my face clean shaven, I wear non descriptive clothing I drive a bland automobile. Last September I killed a 65" bull moose here in DLG, I'll try for bigger this September. This November I'll be hunting mule deer in New Mexico and in May of 2011 I'll be hunting trophy bull elephant with Vaughn Fulton in Namibia. Individuality or independance? I've got that covered.

Thanks Scott, it was meant in jest, sort of...

I decided after my time in RVN and a PD to go back home, raise horses and cattle with my Father, and bale a couple thousand bales of hay a year. I also decided to grow a beard. I may decide to shave it off some day.

That's the difference with tattoos, you don't wake up some morning and decide you are going to delete it from your anatomy. Unless you are high on crack and own a benzo-matic or a sharp knife.

Rich

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Originally posted by ted thorn:
We are judged daily by all of those.....it's ashame.

not a judgement... my preferance...............

quote:

Originally posted by Oddbod:
If someone turned up wanting me to employ them, they wouldn't be considered if they had visible tattoos or any facial piercings whatsoever outside of ear lobes.
They make a judgement that such things are OK & I make a judgement that they aren't.
Their loss, not mine.

well said..................................

i do think small tats on womens bodies are very sexy..... a little rose or a pair of cherries down by the business end is very hot................

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Originally posted by ted thorn:

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Originally posted by tasco 74:
maybe just a stigma but i'd rather not have my food brought to my table by tattooed hands..........

Wow!!!! I have heard it all now.

I suppose the next step would be to round up people with a tattoo and ship them off to a leper colony.....if they will have us/me there.

More than a few need shipping off to a labour camp - because they certainly don't pay their own way due to their unemployability.
Yesterday's example had his whole head covered in tattoos, studs in eyebrows, cheeks, throat & elsewhere & chains joining his ears together.
I have yet to see a female body enhanced by tat's either - tacky, tacky, tacky.

No hire . . .



Chains running from the ears to the nostrils -- Gawd! I'm tempted to . . . "You ever get that jerked or snagged ??? "

I think a great deal of it is the desire to be "F___g Special". There's an astounding amount of people who are terminally conceited, and who think they actually matter to the world at large.

Socially, I tend to like tattooed women - for whatever reason, they tend to not be as avaricious as the others I know.

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suppose the next step would be to round up people with a tattoo and ship them off to a leper colony.....if they will have us/me there.

There's a significant difference between the people who get tats and lepers. One is a disease they catch, the other is choice they make.

I'm pretty middle of the road. I am not fond of them but a tat here or there is not that big of a deal to me. Being covered with them, or, especially having quantities of them on your face or neck is something else. With the exception of pierced ears on women, and barely that, I think piercings are incredibly stupid and among the more unattractive things a man or woman can do to themselves, but, at least they are more or less repairable, unlike tatoos.

My kids know how I feel and hopefully won't come home with any tats while they are receiving any support from the homefront. It's a similar situation to the rights of the employer mentioned above not to hire tatooed employees. They can choose not to have my monetary support or they can choose tats, their choice. As mentioned, in this day and age, why deliberately handicap yourself in the job market, things are tough enough without starting off with a strike against you? Unless someone is trying to work in a tatoo parlor, I think a VAST majority of employers will choose a non-tatted person first, given even close resumes.

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Originally posted by Oddbod:
More than a few need shipping off to a labour camp - because they certainly don't pay their own way due to their unemployability.
Yesterday's example had his whole head covered in tattoos, studs in eyebrows, cheeks, throat & elsewhere & chains joining his ears together.
I have yet to see a female body enhanced by tat's either - tacky, tacky, tacky.

That's mostly BS.....they work in tattoo-friendly businesses. You've never seen mechanics or welders with tats? How about carpenters or masons? When I think of lazy, unemployed slobs, people with a sleeve don't immediately come to mind. Now if you're talking neck tattoos on gang bangers, chances are they don't "work" anyway. I don't have any but I don't pass final judgement on anyone until I know them (although a swastika on the forehead makes a bad initial but lasting impression).

I find it idiotic that you would pass judgement on folks because of some ink(within reason)......not dissimilar to the antis that think we're all wild-eyed lunatics looking to shoot anything that moves just because we hunt.

If yu get a tat, make sur da artist kan spel bedder dan me

QUOTE:}Everyone is trying so hard to show their 'idividualism' yet the all look the same. :END QUOTE}

Ah-ha-ha! Well put!

I have nothing against Tats, nothing at all. In fact, some of my best buds have them and I think they look pretty cool..not for me, but then again I won't be seen dead without a shirt tucked in!

To each it's own!

The facial piercing thing though...YUCK! Especially when some not so attractive person has a bunch of nasal / ebrow piercings that are in various stages of infection...

As for those types that completely go for it; piercings, inplants, etc...AGAIN, that's thier thing and they can deal with whatever consequences that come their way...

In my business better to blend!

JW

Then there are the "bad Chinese" tattoos:

Teammate M came in to practice one day, and showed off his new tattoo, how it was the Chinese symbol for strength, etc - teammate H came over and said "What's that?"

Now, the problem is, teammate H happened to be from Beijing... (Fortunately, it could be fixed - sort of. Teammate H corrected it w. a Sharpie, and Teammate M went to go have a "moment of prayer" with the tattooist...)

Funny....until this thread started some months ago I only had two members in six years I couldn't give a shit about.

I now have many more.....thank you to those who also "chose" to make a character choice. Not with a tattoo but with your keyboard and letting me know that in your opinion I'm not worth a shit! For nothing else but that I have a tattoo.

Right back at ya!!!

Ted,

Whether or not you "give a shit," about us is I suspect unimportant for most, it certainly is to me. This is the internet. The level of affection a www poster from south east Missouri feels for me isn't an issue to keep me up nights.

I believe most opinions that opposed tatoos were made based on appearance and not character. We employers get to dictate the appearance of employees in many ways including jewelery, clothing, make up and hair style. If a prospective or current employee chooses to adjust their appearance in a permanent fashion, i.e. tatoos, it really leaves an employer with little choice other than hire/ fire. Currently I can and do send employees home to pull up their pants, remove the piercings, get a hairstyle that won't get wrapped up in a power tool. An "I Love the Taliban!" tatoo on display whilst re roofing an Army Rangers home gets complicated.

If it helps Ted, inspite of your poor opinion of us and notwithstanding your "ink" we actually do like you very much and think you are very valuable. Much more than shit.

I dunno Scott, you seen the price at Home Depot lately for organic compost...? 250lbs could be quite an investment.

Thank you Scott.....

Rich, you sir are one of the two.
I'm still waiting on just one elk picture of the 30+ you claim to have killed over 360" but I have time though.

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Originally posted by Norton:

quote:

Originally posted by Oddbod:
More than a few need shipping off to a labour camp - because they certainly don't pay their own way due to their unemployability.
Yesterday's example had his whole head covered in tattoos, studs in eyebrows, cheeks, throat & elsewhere & chains joining his ears together.
I have yet to see a female body enhanced by tat's either - tacky, tacky, tacky.

That's mostly BS.....they work in tattoo-friendly businesses. You've never seen mechanics or welders with tats? How about carpenters or masons? When I think of lazy, unemployed slobs, people with a sleeve don't immediately come to mind. Now if you're talking neck tattoos on gang bangers, chances are they don't "work" anyway. I don't have any but I don't pass final judgement on anyone until I know them (although a swastika on the forehead makes a bad initial but lasting impression).

I find it idiotic that you would pass judgement on folks because of some ink(within reason)......not dissimilar to the antis that think we're all wild-eyed lunatics looking to shoot anything that moves just because we hunt.

Not at all BS; it is based on customers of mine who are liberally pierced & inked, several of whom have never done a day's work in their lives & express the intent not to have this situation change.
One of these parasites commented on how he'd added more "adornments" specifically as a deterrent to being found a job.
Trying to equate these tattooed twats with hunters is just plain silly.

I wonder how painful it is to have your nut sack pierced??????

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I wonder how painful it is to have your nut sack pierced??????

Let those unions re-take control of your state and you'll soon find out!

JW

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Originally posted by OLBIKER:
I wonder how painful it is to have your nut sack pierced??????

A friend at work said he has his Johnson pierced (I'll take his word for it) he also told me his wifes nipples are both pierced, he says at night with the lights out they make sparks!

I was sitting in a bar last night when a young women with tats from head to toe walked passed. As I marveled at how stupid she looked, it occurred to me; Why don't the tattoo artisans introduce a camo pattern tattoo? Maybe a digital green or even some of the proprietary ones? Then it would probably become all the rage among the future military volunteers and the military could save a fortune in uniforms. Just furnish them with combat boots and a helmet and the rest is good to go.

Of course the shiney piercings would still be a problem.

Got no tats m'self - not overly fond of them. If I WERE to get a tat, it would be up high on my arm (above where it would show with a short sleeved shirt) and would be "Nemo me impune lacessit" (No one attacks me with impunity or VERY basic English No one f**s with me for free).

My daughter has a "tramp stamp". She got it when she was 16. I tried to have the SOB who did it license revoked. If I'd have known who the bastard was I would've shoved his tattoo machine up his ass.

My daughter and I went somewhere in her car once. She had a pamphlet from a tattoo/piercing parlor with some of the "services" the establishment offered. I decided if someone ever came at my johnson with something sharp ONE of us wasn't walking away.

I did hear of one johnson piercing I did approve of - sorta. Guy had a total bitch of a wife and finally got shed of her. She died a couple of years later and he was still listed as her next of kin. He had her cremated and her cremains converted to one of those "life Jewel" things and the "jewel" mounted on a stud he put on a Prince Albert piercing. Guy figured the bitch had never wanted to get near his junk in life might as well STAY near it now.

This topic is getting pretty serious fast, maybe this will liven it up a little. Seeing a nice set of ass antlers on a pretty girl and wondering what else is on that canvas can sometimes be quite appealing. nuf said. DW

Its not my skin so my objection is a moot point. While I think its stupid three ways from sunday, a lot of people have them its a fact of life. And Life is to short to get all bent out of shape about it.

So this stripper loves Waylon Jennings so much, she decides to get a Tattoo of Waylon on her Buttcheek...

So she goes into this Tattoo Parlor and tells the Proprietor what she wants.... he says he can do that...

She strips down to give him access to her buttcheek, and he goes to work...when he is done, he thinks it is a pretty good job...

However the customer looks at it in the mirror and she isn't impressed at all...and starts complaining..." that isn't Waylon Jennings!!!"

" Lady, I have won more awards for my artistry than any other Tattoo Artist in the state of Texas!' replies the shop keeper...

" well then do it again on my other cheek and do it right!" she retorts...

So the tattoo artist goes to work on the other buttcheek, and takes much more time this time to satisfy his customer and to keep up his reputation...

When he is done, he is really proud of his work..." there ya Go Lady, that is the best Tattoo of Waylon in the entire state of Texas!"

She looks at it in the mirror and again, is not impressed! " That is NOT Waylon Jennings!" She screams...

"Awww Lady, YOUR Nuts... even Waylon himself would be proud of that tat!"..

Well we need a second opinion she retorts...

She walks butt naked into the waiting room and there is only one customer waiting for a tattoo at 2 am in the morning...an old Military Veteran Wino...

so she walks right up to him as he is nodding off in his semi stupor...

" sir, can you do me a favor and look at these two tattoos and tell me who do you think they are???"

" sure lady" he says as he straightens up...

So she shows him the one on the right, and the one on the left... he looks them over and then has her slowly rotate clock wise and then counter clock wise...several times...

Finally he sums it up.." well lady, I don't know who ya got on your left butt or who ya got on your right butt... but the one in the front is definitely Willy Nelson..."

Nothing like watching folks indulging fads that will be gone in a few years to be replaced with something equally worthless.

My wife has two....Now that we are married I see less of them than before, but when I see them I am sure happy!

I just happened across this pic while doing a totally unrelated search and immediately thought of this thread:

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Originally posted by Mark:
I just happened across this pic while doing a totally unrelated search and immediately thought of this thread:

As Charlie Sheen would say, clearly a "winner." Can you imagine him being a valuable member of society?

Oh my God....after that can we press the reset button?